MOVING in Classic Quotes

1  Ralph moved impatiently, still watching the ship.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

2  Ralph blundered on, savaging himself, as the wisp of smoke moved on.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

3  There was the sound of a brief tussle and the conch moved to and fro.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

4  Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

5  The twins moved toward Jack and began to protest timidly about something.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

6  This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

7  Ralph shuddered violently and moved closer to Piggy, so that they bumped frighteningly.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

8  Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

9  The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

10  He moved the conch gently, looking beyond them at nothing, remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire, the talk of fear.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

11  Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

12  Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

13  When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

14  The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward the canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

15  The great rock loitered, poised on one toe, decided not to return, moved through the air, fell, struck, turned over, leapt droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

16  Behind the four boys, the smoke moved gently along the horizon; and on the beach, Henry and Johnny were throwing sand at Percival who was crying quietly again; and all three were in complete ignorance of the excitement.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

17  The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair